New build

[Surfdad]

Yeah I know this one is a HOG. The build is a bit more detail because of the skins. It requires 3 pulls inside the bag. One for the rails, one for the bottom skin and then one for the top skin. The one pound foam is floppy, like a wet noodle and can't be shaped without the rails to offer some stiffness. Plus, there are two additional pulls in the bag for the exterior lamination. After the hotcoat, I could have surfed it, but I wanted to duplicate the construction of a surftech manufactured board.

The boards from the Cobra factory are molded and so don't have the time issue that I have without the mold. The Cobra folks load the mold up and when it comes out, it's ready for paint. Those boards are HIDEOUS looking straight from the mold. Then they shoot them with paint: primer, base color, rail color and finally the clear coat.

These paints are two part urethane and are SUPER HARD.

I'm just now entering the painting phase. Again, because I don't have a mold, the surface of my board requires some "body work". The final paint job will only look good if the surface or foundation I start with is smooth and "flat". So...tons of primer and tons of block sanding. No doubt there are folks familar with custom painting for cars and they can attest to how laborious a decent custom paint job is.

Hopefully I'll have it done before Spring!

[Surfdad]

My "milling" machine is starting to take shape!

[KonaKing]

Dr Frankenstein do you have real job

[Surfdad]

Define "real". Yeah, I do the 7am to 5pm m-f. I'm just super organized...ummm, freakishly so. I always multi-task, like the drive to the office takes me 20 minutes and I'll use one of those recorders to put my to-do list for the day, on. I haven't seen TV in something like 6 years I'm pretty sure we have one here at the house. Already this morning, I've shot a coat of paint on the bottom of the board. TOLD YOU it was freakish!

[KonaKing]

Keep up the good work. There is nothing on TV worth watching but football anyways.

[Surfdad]

This stuff is amazing! Two part catalyzed urethane. Comes in primer and clear coat. A true 2 pac in a rattle can. The picture of the board is with 5 coats of primer.

[Surfdad]

5 coats of the urethane base coat. It's flawless.

[samw]

That looks awsome.....

[da.bell]

Okay, how much are you going to sell this board for?

[Surfdad]

Imagine that scene where Dr. Evil grandly demands (pause for dramatic effect) "One. Million. Dollars." only to be told that that's really not all that much money now.

I haven't even made it to the hard part yet! after I mask the flames - ask me again

[Surfdad]

Yellow for the top of the fades and the pins

[Surfdad]

Laying out the pins, guess who gets to do the hard part!

[Surfdad]

Pins mostly done.

[NICKYPOO]

Uh, your flames are backward dude.

[Surfdad]

LOL - they're like bass - nondirectional.